Political Declaration on HIV and AIDS: On the Fast Track to Accelerating the Fight against HIV and to Ending the AIDS Epidemic by 2030 A/RES/70/266 61 (k). Commit to developing and to strengthening, in all countries, national policies, norms and measures directly aimed at awareness, prevention and punishment of all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, as well as to developing policies aimed at the prevention of sexual violence and comprehensive care for children and adolescents sexually abused; 61 (l). Commit to ensuring universal access to quality, affordable and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health-care and HIV services, information and commodities, including women-initiated prevention commodities, including female condoms, pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis, emergency contraceptives and other forms of modern contraceptives by choice, regardless of age or marital status, and ensuring that services comply with human rights standards and that all forms of violence, discrimination and coercive practices in health -care settings are eliminated and prohibited; 61 (m). Commit to reducing the risk of HIV infection among adolescent girls and young women by providing them with quality information and education, mentoring, social protection and social services, which evidence shows reduce their risk of HIV infection, by ensuring girls’ access and transition to secondary and tertiary education and addressing barriers to retention, and by providing women with psychosocial support and vocational training to facilitate their transition from education to decent work; 61 (n). Commit to supporting and encouraging United Nations entities, international financial institutions and other relevant stakeholders to support the development and strengthening of capacities of national health systems and civil society networks in order to provide sustainable assistance to women living with , at risk of and affected by HIV in conflict and post-conflict situations; 61 (o). Commit to ensuring that gender equality strategies also address the impact of harmful gender norms, including delayed health-seeking behaviours, lower coverage of HIV testing and treatment and higher HIV-related mortality among men, to ensure better health outcomes for men and to reduc e HIV transmission to partners; Ensuring access to high-quality HIV services, commodities and prevention while expanding coverage, diversifying approaches and intensifying efforts to fight HIV and end the AIDS epidemic 62 (a). Recognize that the AIDS response can be fast-tracked only by protecting and promoting access to appropriate, high-quality, evidence-based HIV information, education and services without stigma and discrimination and with full respect for the rights to privacy, confidentiality and informed consent, and reaffirm that comprehensive HIV prevention programmes, treatment, care and support must be the cornerstone of national, regional and international responses to the HIV epidemic; 62 (b). Commit to redoubling non-discriminatory HIV prevention efforts by taking all measures to implement comprehensive, evidence-based prevention approaches to reduce new HIV infections, including by conducting public awareness campaigns and targeted HIV education to raise public awareness; 62 (c). Commit to accelerating efforts to scale up scientifically accurate, age-appropriate comprehensive education, relevant to cultural contexts, that provides adolescent girls and boys and young women and men, in and out of school, consistent with their evolving capacities, with information on sexual and 19/26